Richard Nisbett, Ph.D

Assistant Professor Came to USF: 2008 Track: Global Health Practice
Contact Information: Office: CPH 1124 E-Mail: rnisbett@health.usf.edu Phone: (813) 974-9176 FAX: (813) 974-8506	Discipline: Tropical Public Health
	Specialization: Disease Ecology Rural Community Health & Social Medicine Community Based, Participatory Action Research and Rapid Field Assessments
Degrees: M.A., Biocultural Anthropology, San Diego State University, 1988 Ph.D., Biological Anthropology, University of Iowa, 1993 M.S.P.H., Epidemiology & Int’l Health, University of Alabama, Birmingham, 2001	Other Information:

Dr. Richard A. “Ran” Nisbett joined the Global Health Department in May 2008 where he teaches PHC 6132: Global Health Program Development and Administration. Previously, he has taught “Nutritional Anthropology,” “Human Genetic Variation & Health,” “Evolution Medicine,” and “Biodiversity, Global Change & Human Health.”

Dr. Nisbett is a field epidemiologist working at the interface of environment, behavior and biology in the tropics. A community ecologist, he has studied human-plant-animal interactions and the relationship between biodiversity and health—in particular, traditional hunting & healing in West Africa, as related to the potential for emerging pathogens. He has conducted disease-ecology projects in several countries, including studies of rodent-borne hantaviruses & arenaviruses and anthropod-borne viruses. In addition to disease ecology studies in Liberia, more recently Dr. Nisbett has focused on the socio-cultural environment as well. He is currently working with Liberian colleagues on reproductive health, rural community health, workforce capacity building, and HIV/AIDS risk-reduction among urban commercial sex workers and adolescents.

Dr. Nisbett is a member of the American Anthropological Association, the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, the Society for Vector Ecology, and the Liberian Medical Association.